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Tilera Names Industry Veteran Omid Tahernia CEO

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - September 25, 2007) - Tilera Corporation, a fabless semiconductor
company developing the breakthrough Tile Architecture™ processor family,
today announced that it has taken another step toward building out a
large-scale business by appointing industry veteran Omid Tahernia, 47,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Tilera, effective October 1.
Tahernia was previously the vice president and general manager of the
Processing Solutions Group at Xilinx, Inc. He succeeds Devesh Garg, 42,
who has returned to Bessemer Venture Partners, where he was employed prior
to Tilera.

"The proliferation of technologies like HD content, video on demand,
intelligent networking and the wireless delivery of data has created an
overwhelming demand for more compute power. The entire market is moving to
multicore-based designs to address the need for more processing power, but
have fallen short by implementing designs based on old architectures," says
Tahernia. "The Tile Architecture and its Multicore Development
Environment, is positioned to be the leading next generation processor
technology."

Tahernia comes to Tilera with 24 years of broad industry experience running
large-scale, high volume businesses across all areas of the enterprise
including hardware, software and semiconductor manufacturing -- both in the
U.S. and abroad. He was most recently on the Xilinx executive team which
he joined in 2004, serving as vice president and general manager of the
Processing Solutions Group, a business unit focused on configurable
processing, DSP and embedded processors, a major business thrust for
Xilinx. In this role, Tahernia drove the vision, business and product
strategy including the recent introduction of the first low-end FPGA
chipset focused on high performance DSP, successfully doubling DSP revenue.

"I wish to thank Devesh for his many contributions to Tilera," says Rob
Chandra, Managing Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners. "I am thrilled to
have a person of Omid's caliber and track record of success now leading
Tilera to its next growth phase. Omid's track record and experience with
U.S. and global customers will be a great asset."

Prior to joining Xilinx, Tahernia held a variety of positions at Motorola
including running a $1 billion wireless chipset business in the company's
Semiconductor unit, as the vice president and general manager of the
Wireless and Mobile Systems Division.

Tahernia began his career in 1984 at Motorola where he held various
management positions in Motorola's Paging Group. Tahernia holds a master's
degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology
and bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University. He holds 13 patents.

About Tilera:

Tilera Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company and the industry
leader in highly scalable multicore embedded processor design. Tilera's
processors are based on a new mesh architecture developed at MIT that
scales to hundreds of full-featured cores on a single chip and provides an
unprecedented combination of performance, power efficiency and programming
flexibility. Founded in October 2004, Tilera launched its first product,
the 64-core TILE64 processor in August 2007. Tilera is venture funded by
Bessemer Venture Partners, Walden International, Columbia Capital and
VentureTech Alliance. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.
and operates a research and development facility in Westborough, Mass.